The
Need For StandForGod.Org

Why add another website to the myriad of Christian websites
already in existence? And why try, in
the face of such Christian diversity, to better unify, organize, and influence
what believers are doing in Canada?

Consider these twenty adverse facts:

(1) In the 2006 Census 71% of Canadians said they are not highly religious.[i]

(2) In the 2006 Census 50% of
those aged 15 to 29 declared no religious affiliation.[ii]

(3) The proportion of families
based on a married-couple continues to decline, and in 2006, reached a record
low of 68.6%.[iii]

(4) The national fertility rate
is at 1.49 (.51 below replacement) and “Orthodox” Christian women
average 1.35 births.[iv]

(5) Each year, about 335,000
babies are born and another 103,000 are aborted.[v]

(6) The average age to first
intercourse is 16.5 years for both sexes and 35% of high school students are
sexually active.[vi]

(7) The average age to first
marriage keeps getting older and is now 30.3 years for men and 28.5 years for
women.[vii]

(8) Some 850,000 people aged 15-49 have sexually
transmitted diseases.[viii]

(9) By 2006, 18,289 men and 1,852 women had been diagnosed with AIDS;
and 44,771 men and 8,419 women with HIV.[ix]

(10) In 2003, 38.3% of marriages ended in divorce before the 30th
anniversary,[x]
the third highest rate in the Western World.[xi]

(12) Between 1994 and 2004, the proportion of
Canadians declaring lifetime use of cocaine and crack increased from 3.8 to
10.6%, LSD and hallucinogens 5.2 to 11.4% and speed 2.1 to 6.4%.[xiii]

(13) The number reporting use of an
injectable drug in their life increased from 1.7 million in 1994 to 4.1 million
in 2004.[xiv]

(14) In Canada, suicide is the leading cause of
death for men aged 25 to 29 and 40 to 44, and for women aged 30 to 34; for
youth aged 15 to 24, suicide is the second leading cause of death after traffic
deaths.[xv]

(15) In 2003, there were 3,765 suicides reported, 26 %
more than traffic deaths; and for suicide there are some 100 attempts.[xvi]

(17) In 2002, about 18.9 million Canadians
gambled, spending on average $600; of these 370,000 had moderate and 120,00 had
severe gambling addictions.[xviii]

(18) At least 8,000 migrant girls are illegally
trafficked into Canada each year and sold for an estimated $120 million; then
they work in brothels or on the street until they fulfill contract quotas,
usually $40,000 or 400 men, whichever comes first.[xix]

(20) Canada's homeless population
grew on average 20% per year for the past decade and is now 150,000
people.[xxi]

Consider
these observations:

· Canada is a quote “World Leader” in full
funding and assured access for abortion “on-demand.”

· Canada is one of only five countries
worldwide to use the “marriage” word in legislation for same-sex unions.

· Canadian governance has renounced the
name of "Jesus Christ" in Parliamentary, Armed Forces and State
liturgy.

· Canada has become a secular
humanist and homosexist state.

Now broaden your viewing horizon beyond individual,
beyond couple and family, beyond small group and local church, beyond
denomination and national fellowship, and ask yourself:

“What is God doing with our
Nation?”

“How well are Canadian
Christians representing His will for our Country?”

In just one half century, Christian
values in crucial social and political matters of our Nation have been forsaken
under the unrelenting assault of secular humanism, moral liberalism, post
modernism and most recently homosexism.
The percentage of quote “saved Canadians” is low and falling, and our
Constitution, in all practicality, no longer has anything to do with founding
principles recognizing God. State adoption of the most
liberal abortion laws and homosexual rights legislations on earth contradicts
Scripture and constitutes a judgment against Canadian Christendom - asserted to
be as much as 76 percent of our population.[xxii] [The
2001 Census, revealed that over three quarters of Canadians identified
Christianity as their religion: 12.8 million were Roman Catholic (43%); 8.7
million were Protestant (29%); another 0.78 million identified themselves as
apostolic, “born again” or “evangelical” other (2.6%); and 0.48 million were
Christian Orthodox (1.6%).]

How is it that our Nation has brazenly continued
down a path of governance and social behavior away from God, while this overwhelming Christian
majority has “religiously” executed its democratic election right and
“faithfully” exercised its entitlement to petition God’s intervention? Canada’s persistence along this ungodly path
is doubly paradoxical, since all Canadians (believers and non-believers)
request divine intervention every time we sing the National Anthem - “God keep
our Land glorious and free!” Why has
God not answered our prayers for revival? StandForGod.Org
is dedicated to exploring the reasons behind the past and ongoing influence
failures and to explaining why a national revival seems unlikely under current
conditions. Moreover, this website
tries to explain the meaning and consequence of citizenship in a secular
humanist and homosexist state. The
Organization also wishes to assist Christians to discover how Canadian
Christendom might give a more effective witness and better entreat God’s
blessing upon our Nation. In this
regard, the Organization places huge importance on professing Christianity as a
comprehensive “worldview,” and not a buffet of elective beliefs.

A
key deduction from our analysis is that the Christian witness in Canada is, in
aggregate, feeble, lacking integrity, and over
the last fifty years has resulted, time after time, in failure to adequately
oppose the social and political activism of a drastically smaller segment of
the population. The witness is too
often one of division, denial, indifference, irreverence, and for at least one denomination,
willful apostasy. The witness is also
often characterized by ambiguity, timidity, and public withdrawal. In just a few generations, Canadian
Christendom has become a highly contradictory, assortment of denominations and
churches, which are in disarray as an effective influence. The following table shows the two most
recent numerical “snapshots”
of Canadian Christendom, taken during the 1991 and 2001 Censuses:[xxiii]

Canadian Christendom

2001

1991

% Change

1991-2001

Roman Catholic
Church

12,793,125

12,203,625

+4.8

United Church

2,839,125

3,093,120

-8.2

Anglican

2,035,500

2,188,110

-7.0

Baptist

729,470

663,360

+10.0

Lutheran

606,590

636,205

-4.7

Presbyterian

409,830

636,295

-35.6

Pentecostal

369,475

436,435

-15.3

Mennonite

191,465

207,970

-7.9

Salvation Army

87,785

112,345

-21.9

Christian
Reformed Church

76,665

84,685

-9.5

Evangelical
Missionary Church

66,705

44,935

+48.4

Christian and
Missionary Alliance

66,280

59,240

+11.9

Adventists

62,875

52,365

+20.1

1. Only specific
denominations with counts of 60,000 or more were included.

2. Apparently
the positive trend within the Roman Catholic Church is the result of
immigration.

3. Note the 2006
Census did not address this topic since the subject is only addressed every
ten years.

Canadian Christendom is characterized by
division between Roman Catholics and Protestants – the former assert conformity
under the infallible spiritual leadership of one man; the latter assert the
polar opposite, a so-called “priesthood of individuals,” everyone follows the
lead of their own conscience, i.e. “conformity to none.” The former categorically outlaws abortion on
demand, the use of contraception, and homosexual ordination; the latter does
not. The former unconditionally asserts
male headship in church affairs; the latter does not. Ironically, both claim genuine adherence to the Holy Spirit and
to have Christ at the church center.
Protestant denominations within Canadian Christendom are often
divided. For an extreme example, one
denomination has twenty-one categories of unions, conferences or affiliations
in North America, not including additional “free will” churches; and within
these conventions or unions, each church (or congregation) exercises
significant independence. Within
distinct congregations there often exists a huge breach between orthodox and
liberal believers over fundamental issues of faith. And we are not talking about disputes over non-essentials like
whether to have cushioned pews, a full emersion baptismal or blue choir
gowns. Canada’s largest Protestant
denomination (some 3,500 congregations), for example, has instigated a unique
democratic process along with a pluralistic theology to address huge divergence
in authorized belief among its members.
In this denomination congregations are allowed to vote on whether they
will perform same-sex marriages. Once
the majority view is exercised, those in the congregation holding minority
opposition are encouraged to stay in fellowship. The theology behind this approach has been summarized this way: “While believing that our faith is grounded in truth, our truth need not
deny the truths of others.”[xxiv]In this denomination the faith stance of a community, which supports
same-sex marriage, does not undermine the faith stance of a community that does
not.[xxv] Exacerbating the issue of chronic conflict over Gospel
truth, are the many so-called “religious merchants” - organizations,
evangelists and “anointed” healers, who have turned the art of Christian
witness into profitable businesses.

What
is Jesus Christ to make of such disunity and confusion within Canadian
Christendom? He states in Matthew
12:25, “Every kingdom divided against
itself is brought to desolation, and every city or household divided against
itself shall not stand.” Moreover,
in Revelation 3:15-16, John records how Christ reacted to similar division,
compromise and self-delusion within the Church in Laodicea. Jesus said of the Church: “I know your deeds, that you are neither
cold nor hot. I wish you were either
one or the other! So, because you are
lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Even though the Church was wealthy and
did not want for temporal things, the membership was blind and their
spirituality was unacceptable to Christ.
Notwithstanding the precept that there is but one true Gospel of Jesus
Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-2) and that Christ cannot be divided (1 Corinthians
1:13), Canadian Christians persist in
witnessing to an absurd and unholy smorgasbord of “key” beliefs.

No
amount of sound economic and social governance by elected politicians will undo
the impact of God turning away from a willfully professed secular humanist and
homosexist state. More to the point, no amount of prayer by Canadian Christians
(and there has been plenty over the decades) is likely to petition God’s favour
under “status quo” witness conditions.
God’s gracious intervention on behalf of the Nation is unlikely, while
significant portions of proclaimed Christendom go about “unabated”
proselytizing a reimaged Christ and proclaiming God’s blessing on homosexual
ordination and same-sex unions. In the
conspicuous rift between the orthodox believer and the so-called “pro-gay
Christian,” common sense dictates that one follows the true Spirit and the
other is giving false witness.
Christians owe Jesus Christ their individual and collective best
witness. Divided, half-hearted,
lukewarm efforts in spiritual warfare result in failure.

In sum, the “status quo”
Christian witness in Canada has been, and will continue to be, a national-level
failure. Precisely because traditional church models
and behaviors represent the “status quo,” they must be held accountable,
challenged, and where possible, reformed.
Less than best efforts, although commendable, are not enough. When a particular church model, Christian
fellowship or church process is critiqued by this Organization, it is not that
these are seen as entirely unsuccessful efforts or agencies, or that these are
seen as not making a positive contribution to God’s Kingdom. However, where appropriate, we need to call
a spade a spade – ineffectual influence at the national level is a Christian
responsibility at all levels, notwithstanding isolated personal and
church-level victories for the Lord.
Christians live in denial, when they continue to apply the same level of
effort and the same nature of witness expecting a different result for the
Nation the next time.

Authentic believers must
come out from the complacent, the deceived and the counterfeit; out from
advocates of deception. The greatest hindrance to a positive response to our prayers
for spiritual revival and a moral turnaround within this country lies with
us. As the truism goes, “God is eternal, forever constant. And when
God seems far away, it is not because He has changed or moved – it is because
we have.”It is not God’s will
that Canada be the global leader in moral liberalism and secular humanism; nor
is it in God’s character to be a magician and “miraculously” return the Nation
to adherence to its founding Christian roots. During the height of the same-sex marriage struggle (2004-05) one
could not help but see the irony in the notion of Christians praying for Prime
Minister Paul Martin (or any politician or political party for that matter) to
have a miraculous about face on the issue – “gay marriage,” when at the same
time, the largest Protestant church body in Canadian Christendom, second only
in membership to the Roman Catholic Church, was ardently petitioning God to put
Mr. Martin’s policy into law. Indeed,
during the same time Christians (clergy and laity) in other denominations were
fence sitting, silent or split on the issue, all conditions likely to inhibit a
favourable response. A key to turning
around Christian influence in Canada is to recognize the mess that God surely
sees when He looks at Canadian Christendom; and fervently change things for the
better with a contrite repentant heart.
There is no biblical revelation to suggest that God might miraculously
intervene in the direction of this Nation, while the hearts and actions of His
“elect” are in such unholy disarray? 2
Chronicles 7:14 clearly details who needs to repent before God will intervene.

The national situation in Canada today is not unlike
that of the nation of Israel in Isaiah’s time.
A portion of the prophet’s admonition to his “blind and deaf” nation reads: “Behold,
the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your
God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear (Isaiah
59:1-2)…. we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk
in darkness. We grope for the wall like
the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the
night; we are in desolate places as dead men (Isaiah 59:9-10). Instead of harnessing the Lord’s “mighty
power” and engendering God’s blessings upon our Nation, Canadian Christendom
has become spiritually neutered (evangelically impotent) through such ungodly
schemes as theological compromise, scriptural heresy, willful apostasy and
abject ecumenicalism. Second best
efforts, if not complete apathy among fellowships, denominations and churches -
not publicly asserting the tenets of the one true Gospel are at the heart of
the problem. For StandForGod.Org,
maintaining this longstanding “status quo” witness is not an action
option.

We are in search of brothers and sisters (the Lord’s
ambassadors) who have “saltiness” in their witness. We are in search of approaches to doing things that properly
reverence God; and as a result, win His favour to make possible positive change
in Canadian society. In general,
people are sick of believers with “all-the-answers” and StandForGod.Org makes
no attempt to achieve such a lofty position; our focus is foremost on asking
the right questions in facing up to Christendom’s influence failures and in
convincing Christians of the need for change. The Organization also aims to influence the witness within
Canadian Christendom for the better by seeking answers to key questions and by
making (and soliciting) recommendations for what more can be done to turn
things around. The considerable
effort spent in research and writing of the study materials on this website has
been done not only to inform, but also to motivate. It is one thing to be convinced that some policy or way of doing
things is wrong; it is another thing entirely to grasp the magnitude of the
policy damage or measure the consequence of continuing with the status
quo.